Cutting hay when the seed head first appears is best for nutritional value For farming and ranching families, summertime often brings with it hay cutting. Knowing when to cut the hay is key for ...

Second-cutting fescue makes quality hay when stems and seed heads were cut earlier. Farmers cutting fescue hay don’t get many second chances to make quality hay. This is a one-in-five year, says Craig ...

It’s time to make the first cutting of hay in Missouri, says University of Missouri Extension state forage specialist Craig Roberts. Waiting too long leads to poor-quality feed for livestock next ...

FARGO - Now is the time to start cutting hay, North Dakota State University livestock and rangeland specialists advise. Although hay usually isn't harvested for the first time for another two weeks, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Indiana's second hay cutting is lower yielding, but higher in nutritional value than the first. Knowing this can help cattle producers decide on a feeding program and supplement ...

Nothing changes the landscape like cutting hay for wildlife that used those grasslands. Here are some common sense haying ideas to benefit wildlife and minimize the effects on young animals or smaller ...

BISMARCK - Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson wants hay cutting on federal conservation grasslands opened longer. Johnson wrote to State Farm Service Agency Director Gary Nelson, asking the agency ...

TOWNER, N.D. -- When I was in college, an animal nutrition professor always called alfalfa "the king of hay." Whatever you measured -- crude protein, relative feed value, taste, smell, bovine ...

Seth Parker, who works for Mark Butterfield, leaves alfalfa hay in windrows to dry Thursday, June 23, 2022, in a field along Dobbin Road south of Enterprise. It’s the first cutting of the year.

It’s been an especially rough few years for farmers and growers trying to recover from the pandemic, between supply chain issues, record heat last year and abnormally late freezing temperatures this ...

CARROLL TOWNSHIP - There's plenty of hay for all 14 horses to eat at Riders Unlimited's Oak Harbor facility, thanks to a Fremont farmer who donates bales to the nonprofit group. But it hasn't been as ...